On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:14:17, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Makes sense considering that sandboxed apps don't run their own open panel. 
> Instead the accessory view appears to be hosted in a borderless window that 
> gets attached (at the Window Server level, I'd presume) to the actual open 
> panel that runs in the PowerBox process. So it'd probably just let through 
> any clicks in transparent areas to PowerBox in the underlying window.

Jeez, what a horrible hack. But then, it is sandboxing we're talking about, 
which is by design an ugly hack. :)

> A workaround would probably be to use a plain NSBox as your accessory view 
> and fill it with a solid color (e.g. an opaque version of the color that a 
> standard-appearance NSBox uses to fill itself). of course that'd run the risk 
> of looking a bit ugly if Apple changes the color used for that. I don't see 
> an obvious color for NSBox contents in  NSColor.h.

That seems to work, but I'm not going to fix Apple's ugly hack by adding an 
uglier hack.

--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek


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